July 21, 2006
MoveDigital has a blog
I spent the last day getting wordpress up and running for our use over at MoveDigital. So be sure to note blog.movedigital.com for your MoveDigital bloggy needs. Also, I just posted over there MoveDigital is now supporting a user wide listing of mobile content directly from m.movedigital.com. Fire it up on your phone and see what's out there. By Gary Lerhaupt, 02:51 PM in general | CommentsJuly 19, 2006
Prodigem URLs now point correctly to MoveDigital
There was some delay in getting prodigem.com's DNS switched over earlier today. So, no worries, Prodigem URLs for user pages, user rss feeds, .torrent files, torrent info pages and the Prodigem torrent tracker should now properly resolve to their corresponding resting place at MoveDigital. All other Prodigem URLs will now resolve to the open greeting explaining the MoveDigital switchover. Since there is no longer a master listing of content as was found in Prodigem's main torrent listing, Prodigem's main rss feed and category feeds no longer exist. In the future, we are considering adding a 'presentation layer' to MoveDigital to showcase user's content, but for our initial launch we didn't want to just throw something together that wouldn't be excellent. If you run into any bugs with an old Prodigem URL, please let me know. By Gary Lerhaupt, 01:11 AM in prodigem | CommentsJuly 18, 2006
MoveDigital Day 1 round up
Today was a busy day of course. There definitely seems to be interest and we definitely look forward to adding on and improving our service so it's even better. Here are some highlights, all really positive except geeknewscentral was disappointed. My reply to Todd who runs geeknews and was in the past nice enough to include Prodigem in his book, continues below. www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/18/movedigital-launches... mobilecrunch.com/2006/07/18/movedigital-means-movies-on-your-mobile/ www.scripting.com/2006/07/18.html#edwardsDoesBittorrent/ digg.com/politics/John_Edwards_is_Using_Bittorrent
chris.pirillo.com/2006/07/18/movedigital-is-moving-forward/ techmeme.com/#a060718p58 www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/006264.html#comments politicalwire.com/archives/2006/07/18/edwards_using... In Italian: German: Japanese: My response for Todd Cochrane at geeknewscentral. I wanted to include this on your blog, but wasn't able to add a comment. In general I think this is just a series of misunderstandings and I hope we can work it out. Continued... Continue reading "MoveDigital Day 1 round up"By Gary Lerhaupt, 07:12 PM in general | Comments Following Prodigem's acquisition back in March, I've been hard at work working with a great group of folks to retool Prodigem for rerelease as a new service. I'm happy to report that today that new service launches, and the web service formerly known as Prodigem is now known as MoveDigital. June 12, 2006
Vista Torrent
A couple days running without being ceased and desisted, vistatorrent.com, impressive. They're torrenting Microsoft Vista Beta 2 to cope with Microsoft's distribution inability. Update, 7/15: they got a cease and desist letter. By Gary Lerhaupt, 02:52 PM in torrents | CommentsMay 18, 2006
MythTV to get flash video app (ala YouTube) ?
Checking the comments on my post to slashdot about streaming myth to your phone, theres one from a MythWeb developer (MythWeb being a standard MythTV plugin) which mentions they are actively working to add a flash app that gives you web video access to your tv recordings in the spirit of "google video/youtube". That's quite awesome. Are there phones which do flash? By Gary Lerhaupt, 12:44 AM in general | CommentsMay 14, 2006
Streaming MythTV to your cell phone
Electrical tape wearing thin holding together my old cell phone (Samsung i500), I decided it was time to give in and upgrade to a new phone. I drank the kool-aid on a 2 year Sprint contract given the discounts both on the phone and in my monthly service, and in the end settled on the Samsung a920. It's an EVDO enabled phone with Sprint's $15 unlimited monthly data service. Playing around with the mobile TV functionality (that's an extra $10/month but I was enjoying the first month free), I had one of those lightning bolt moments. Why not stream my own video to the phone? Better yet, why not just automate my MythTV to convert my recorded programs and automatically have them ready to be streamed whenever I care to watch them on the phone? A bit of research later, I discovered SlingBox can stream your tv to your phone, but it needs to be a Windows mobile phone and then there's the monthly service fees and the box to buy. I also found random mythtv devotees with similar ideas at least as far back as January 2005, but couldn't otherwise find a concise guide or more information. Inspired by ZooVision, I knew it was possible for users to stream their own content to their phone, it was just a matter of putting the pieces all together. A couple hours of tinkering later, and I've got a working solution... my "tivo" on my cell phone wherever there's sprint evdo access. So here are the steps:
Triumph. Indeed some beautiful uses of fair use. Fair use to record the tv program to my hard drive... Fair use to convert the video format to one viewable by my cell phone... Fair use to stream it to my cell phone for my own personal enjoyment. Now imagine trying to do any of this with the broadcast flag in place. By Gary Lerhaupt, 03:51 AM in general | CommentsMarch 20, 2006
My bracket blows up, my DirecTV HD does too
Well, it wasn't a good weekend for my bracket. After round 1 I was flying high on yahoo's list, in the 95th percentile, but then things started to not go so well. More importantly, on Saturday while watching CBS HD, my DirecTV HD receiver decided to burn out. Presto, I'm talking full pungent smell of burnt plastic eminating from the receiver and no longer will it turn on. The DirecTV (advanced) phone technician seemed quite shocked by this, especially since it never warned me as it is designed to, that it was getting hot. They're sending out a new unit and hooked me up with 6 months free HBO/3 months free showtime (without me even asking). I guess I should be glad the thing didn't truly catch fire. Still, questionable design, no? Here's the AVS forum post I started on the matter. By Gary Lerhaupt, 04:10 PM in general | CommentsMarch 12, 2006
Prodigem Acquired
Good news! Prodigem has been acquired by a Bay Area startup. We'll be retooling the site, adding some functionality, and perhaps changing the name so keep your pants on and be on the lookout for a relaunch with some nice extra goodies. More info later ... By Gary Lerhaupt, 10:58 AM in prodigem | CommentsJanuary 27, 2006
GPL on my TV
I've been playing with my new HD television, a Panasonic 42 inch plasma. First impressions are that it lives up to its reputation, but all the better to be surfing through its settings and come across the License menu. Clicking that brings up a special screen with just the GPL. Even if it's "so called," it's cool. January 22, 2006
Prodigem links
Here's an interview for eHub about Prodigem I did a while back that they put up this week, and here's an IPTV feature that PC Magazine is running on their site that puts Prodigem at the top of their torrent page (though I guess we need to work more on our description display ... though I wonder if they wrote this before the last redesign went live). By Gary Lerhaupt, 05:52 PM in prodigem | CommentsJanuary 05, 2006
Phish launches DRM free video download service
Phish may be defunct, but livephish.com, their download service, is not. Today they announced that they'll be moving into selling videos from Phish's live shows at $1.99 per track. It's mpeg4 encoded, supposedly ipod video ready and they're offering a limited time free track so you can test it out. Just like their audio tracks, there's no DRM (but it also looks like you can't currently download from FireFox, bummer). By Gary Lerhaupt, 04:10 PM in general | CommentsJanuary 02, 2006
Dig Prodigem's New Look
I've given Prodigem's torrent page a facelift. The style is less tabular, more conversational and something akin to digg. It also allows room for a right hand column which I intend to continue to refine. I added some google ads to try my hand at those again. Hopefully I can coax google into providing more than just ads for illegal torrent sites with the added context of longer torrent descriptions made possible by this new layout. Look good? Yes? No? By Gary Lerhaupt, 01:20 AM in prodigem | CommentsDecember 21, 2005
fun with ajax
Prodigem already has a few ajaxishy elements in its UI, but I've replaced the file upload mechanism with an ajax widget of its own. Rather than the old system which would spawn an ugly window to tell you the progress of your file upload into Prodigem, the new control, powered by Encodable has a progress meter which appears in the browser to let you know the progress of the upload. I still have some kinks to work on rather large file uploads (>150MB) where it seems to hang at the end, but otherwise its a nice enhancement and fun to play with. By Gary Lerhaupt, 11:47 AM in prodigem | CommentsDecember 03, 2005
The Ellen Feiss of the Firefox Movement
Rocketboom has a great video of interviews of random NYers on their browser preference, Internet Explorer or Firefox. Here's the torrent. The best response by far is from the guy below. Via digg and boingboing. By Gary Lerhaupt, 02:25 AM in general | Comments |
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